Re: ncurses-5.6 build problems on Darwin/MacOSX

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, address@hidden wrote:

> Okay *now* I remember something about this version of libtool,
> I think they changed the --version syntax just a bit:
> > > > >
> # /usr/local/bin/glibtool --version
>
> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.23a (1.1220.2.416 2006/10/24 20:18:28)
>
> Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

It looks as if it's putting out a blank line at the beginning.
That's easy to fix in a sed script.

> # _
> <<<<
> That's verbatim with extra linefeeds & all.
> Yeah I think I hit this before on other projects...
>
> > [...]
> > I think the immediate problem is why the configure script's not
> > getting the libtool version.
>
> Let's see what we need to do to get it working this far.  There
> doesn't seem to be a "short version string" option, so I wonder if
> this GNU team knows they may break scripts for not having a
> standardised version text.  ;)

It's a problem with more than one.  I've made 2-3 fixes to keep up with 
gcc.

> So ... what to do, where to go next?  In meantime I could force
> configure to simply say 'yes' here and see what comes.  ;)

That "should" work, since it's not using the version for anything
specific.

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